TYPE1; Asteroids & Astronauts

asteroids & astronauts from Ian Arthur Spaeth on Vimeo.

Here is my animation involving asteroids and astronauts. I was working with the 'a' representing the astronaut and use the background to showcase the asteroids. The music is "Rocket Man" by Sir Elton John.

VISCOM1; NY Times

This was a really nice article to read and at exactly the perfect time. I assume you planned this Jamie? But I read right after my brain started to finally get the hang of finding juxtapositions. It was nice to read an article on it and see this same exact concept used in a different way with different subjects. It was also a treat to try and find the juxtapositions before I read what they were to see if they matched what she wrote in the article. Sometimes it did and sometimes I saw different similarities than what was pointed out to me. It just goes to show that although I may see a juxtaposition, someone else may not, or they may find a different way to look at it. It just goes to show that juxtapositions are in some senses a very open way to think, and if you can successfully convey one specific juxtaposition, you're definitely on your way to becoming a stronger designer and being able to get your information across.



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TYPE1; Words

the letter A

apple

alligator

angry

alphabet

armadillo

alabaster

argentina

angle

air

ascot

alloy

angel

acropolis

antsy

africa

america

anchovies

ABBA

ant

ass

aperture

ampersand

agua

affection

aspen

abuse

alcohol

aqua

athena

adventure

avenue

acorn

anorexic

antarctica

anchorage

anchor

alaska

alabama

arkansas

armour

arrow

arrest

apprenticeship
architect
archeologist
architecture
afro
amber
apron
astronaut
anvil
atom
atrium
arterie
apathy
apology
ant eater
aardvark
artichoke
asteroid
apollo
aphrodisiac

anorexic & apple

alcohol & abuse

armor & arrow

acorn & avenue

acorn & aspen

apron & apple

astronaut & asteroid

artery & atrium

anvil & armor

VISCOM1; Reading Response Transparency

This reading was definitely just another reenforcement of what this entire project was about and the complexities that it can build up to. It also gave us helpful examples as to ways we can employ different strategies to help get across different words, thoughts, or phrases. Overlapping whole images can be just as successful as overlapping textures or colors, sometimes even more successful.

VISCOM1; TYPE1; Final Statement

Tenochtitilan. Fifteenth Century AD.

My book is, essentially, a retailing of the history of the Aztec civilization and the conquest of the civilization by the Conquistadors. The book starts out with the civilization undisturbed, which quickly becomes more disturbed by the attack of the Spaniards, and then eventually downfalls and vanishes.

Type and the dots separately have a hard time communicating a point across to you, but through the conjoining of them, they become much stronger in the message they try to communicate. I focused my dots on colors used back in that time period in their architecture, art, and clothing.

In this book I worked with a few main ideas and objectives to keep constant throughout the book. The first one is the "unit shape" that either appears or is alluded to on every page. The second one is color, I kept my color pallet to blues, greens, and reds. The book starts out mainly blue and greens with very few reds, then transitions into more emphasis on the red with accents of blues and greens, and then eventually fades back out into nothing but blues and greens. Overall with these aspects and keeping the transparency pages to the same sort of feel and consistency, I feel I have been able to create a nicely cohesive piece.

The biggest thing that I have come to find in the course of this project is that imagery can either make your project that much stronger or just rip itself apart. Imagery must be supportive but not overpowering; cohesive, but not too boring and monochromatic. Also, relying too heavily on imagery is the moment I would realize that the concept I was working on at that time was a bad one, and so I would fresh or take that idea in a new direction.

I feel that I have a rather high craft. But craft is always something that I can continue and keep working on and striving for a higher level of. Thinking abstractly is something that I struggled with the entire project long. I am not an abstract thinker in general, so this project has really got my brain working and thinking in new and different ways.